Irish Dominion League

Irish Dominion League
LeaderSir Horace Plunkett
Founded1919
Dissolved1921 (1921)
Merger ofIrish Centre Party and Irish Reconstruction Association
NewspaperIrish Statesman
IdeologyUnited Ireland
Irish unionism
Political positionCentrist[1][2]

The Irish Dominion League was an Irish political party and movement in Britain and Ireland which advocated Dominion status for Ireland within the British Empire, and opposed partition of Ireland into separate southern and northern jurisdictions.[3] It attracted modest support from middle-class Dubliners of moderate unionist and nationalist backgrounds, anxious to achieve a compromise in the face of the escalating conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British.[4] It operated between 1919 and 1921.

  1. ^ Smith, N. (2006). A 'Manly Study'?: Irish Women Historians 1868-1949. Springer. p. 69.
  2. ^ Moulton, Mo (2014). Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–53.
  3. ^ John Kendle, Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920 (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 Jan 1989), 231.
  4. ^ Richard Bennett, The Black and Tans (Pen and Sword, 10 Nov 2010), 195.